Trent AI Raises $13M to Secure the Agentic Age

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 7, 2026--

Trent AI, an agentic security company, today announced its emergence from stealth with a layered security solution built for the agentic era. Following a $13M seed round led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, with participation from leaders at OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks, AWS and others, the product is the first multi-agent security solution designed to secure agents as they evolve. Led by strong conviction that security should be continuous, invisible and scalable, Trent AI’s leadership team brings deep experience from Spotify, AWS, Alcion (acquired by Veeam) and Confluent.

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“Organizations are deploying AI agents and autonomous workflows faster than their security can adapt, and most development teams using these agents and workflows have no security framework designed for their systems,” said Eno Thereska, Co-founder and CEO of Trent AI. “This is not an easy problem to solve. Trent AI is tackling these difficult and important problems, while building the necessary security foundations and frameworks for agentic systems now and through the next decade.”

According to Deloitte’s 2026 State of AI report, nearly 3 in 4 (74%) companies plan to deploy agentic AI within two years. Despite this, only 1 in 5 (21%) report having a mature model for governance of autonomous agents. The threat increases in complex environments with interconnected agents, with security holes risking the entire infrastructure; driving the need for a security and compliance solution that encompasses the entire agentic ecosystem.

Trent AI’s Unified Security Solution

Built for developers and security teams that want to develop and ship agents fast without compromising security, Trent AI’s layered, unified offering secures agents throughout the entire lifecycle. Every cycle makes Trent AI’s agents smarter about the systems they protect. As the feedback loop tightens, judgement improves and mitigations become more accurate, giving development and security teams a faster, more reliable path to safe deployment. Agents in the loop work to:

Design partners, companies with early access to the Trent AI agentic security solution, including Canopy, Commscentre, ML@Cam, Qbeast, Weblogic and others are already seeing tangible benefits to security and deployment. These partners have reported: immediate visibility into their security posture, a security audit report, fast response time identifying and presenting vulnerabilities, a clean and well laid out remediation scope and adaptive feedback.

Investors Back the Future of Agentic Security

In addition to LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, prominent angel investors involved in the launch include OpenAI Member of Technical Staff Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, former Head of Stripe Data Infrastructure and current Director at AWS Avinash Bhat, Databricks Distinguished Engineer Ippokratis Pandis, former Spotify VP Engineering and Head of AI/ML Tony Jebara and others.

“Agent adoption is outpacing enterprise security readiness. As autonomous workflows make decisions across critical systems, a new layer of infrastructure is needed to govern, observe, and enforce safe behavior,” said Cambridge Innovation Capital Partner Ian Lane. “We believe Trent AI is well placed to define this category.”

"The rise of agents goes hand in hand with the rise of new security threats,” said Saul Klein, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Phoenix Court, the home of LocalGlobe. “Now is the right time to build the long-term foundations of security for agentic systems. Trent AI is uniquely positioned to do this, combining deep academic expertise with real-world experience building large-scale systems and working closely with design partners deploying agents today.”

"Agentic systems are quickly becoming part of the software stack, but the security infrastructure around them is still early,” said Avinash Bhat, Director at AWS. “Trent is building the foundations teams will need, to operate these systems safely at scale. I’m excited to support Eno and the team as they tackle this emerging challenge."

“AI models have led to an exponential growth in code being generated by companies big and small. That code brings along an exponential growth in security risks, vulnerabilities and threats... and human security teams just can't keep up,” said Tony Jebara, former Spotify VP Engineering and Head of AI/ML. “We desperately need specialized AI models that can analyze this flood of code, produce security assessments and provide mitigations. Trent AI is providing just that: securing your code at all stages, all the way from the initial design stage to large code repositories."

Trent AI is active in the security and AI community, currently a Partner Startup member of OWASP, the Open Worldwide Application Security Project, as well as a Startup Partner with Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab Venture Network and is also engaged with providing a Security Agent for open-source platforms such as OpenClaw.

To learn more about Trent AI or sign up for the security solution waitlist, please visit trent.ai.

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About Trent AI

Trent AI is redefining agentic AI with context-driven agentic security. Its proprietary judgement layer and reinforcement learning technology power a collection of specialized security agents. By orchestrating these agents across customer workflows, Trent AI transforms agentic security into an effortless, continuous part of agent development. Trent AI was launched in 2025 by co-founders: Eno Thereska, former Distinguished Engineer at Alcion (acquired by Veeam), AWS, and Confluent, Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge and previous Director of ML at Amazon, and Zhenwen Dai, former Machine Learning Scientist at AWS and Senior Research Manager at Spotify.

Co-founder and CTO Zhenwen Dai, Co-founder and Chief Scientist Neil Lawrence, Co-founder and CEO Eno Thereska.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A major flash flood at the Grand Canyon forced the evacuation of dozens of people and swept large boulders, metal structures and other debris into the Colorado River that runs through it, the National Park Service said.

Flash flooding also knocked out the sole water pipeline that serves tourists and residents at the national park, the park said late Sunday. Starting Monday, tourists won’t be able to say overnight at lodges and hotels within Grand Canyon National Park. The park is also asking residents who live there year-round to conserve water.

The flooding in Bright Angel Creek, which flows into the river, happened Saturday afternoon and has left the park service seeking information about 15 people who may be missing or unaccounted for. Torrents of water wiped out footbridges over the creek and significantly altered the landscape, widening the creek bed and creating what appeared to be a new river rapid.

As the park service tries to account for everyone in the area, it is asking asked anyone with details about people hiking or camping there to get in touch. It said it was working with the Arizona Department of Public Safety to continue evacuations Sunday.

“This is a reminder of what a dynamic and active landscape Grand Canyon is,” said Jack Schmidt, director of the Center for Colorado River Studies at Utah State University.

Popular tourist spots including the Bright Angel Campground, Phantom Ranch and parts of the North Kaibab trail remained closed on Sunday while park officials surveyed the damage, the park said. Rafting trips on the Colorado River also have been halted for now.

More than 60 people were evacuated from Phantom Ranch, which has a historic canteen and dorms, and is a common spot for rafters to get off and on the river. No injuries have been reported.

Erica Viola said she was at Bright Angel Campground when the rain started Saturday afternoon, and she and about 50 other hikers watched the creek rise and then debris start to flow by, including what looked like a bunkhouse. The group was taken by helicopter to safety, ending her adventure two days early, she said.

Parth Desai was hiking through a narrow passage in Bright Angel Canyon with a group of fellow physicians and a park ranger when the downpour started.

“We saw the creek flood, waterfalls coming up out of nowhere, boulders, mud, landslides happening everywhere,” he said.

Later, as they made their way toward Phantom Ranch, a colleague shouted “Up, Up, Up, Up!” as a 4-foot (1-meter) debris wall headed toward them and they ran up into a patch of cacti, he said. They were finally rescued by helicopter that evening after making it to the Phantom Ranch area, he said.

About half an inch to 1 inch (1 centimeter to 2.5 centimeters) of rain fell within about 30 minutes in the rocky area where there’s a steep drop in elevation, said National Weather Service meteorologist Justin Johndrow in Flagstaff.

“Most of it ran off instantly,” Johndrow said.

He said the flooding happened on the north side of the Grand Canyon, where Bright Angel Creek comes from the North Rim down to the Colorado River, dropping around 6,000 feet (1,828 meters).

More rain and thunderstorms were possible for the area into Monday.

Stengle reported from Dallas. Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, and in Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, also contributed.

Bright Angel Creek near the Phantom Ranger Station in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, is seen after flash flooding from storms, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. (Parth Desai via AP)